2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Autograph Manuscript General Orders, 6pp., signed by “Jno Withers, Asst.Adgt Gen’l”. Datelined: Adjs & Inspr. General’s Office, Richmond, Jany 19th 1864, Special Orders, No. 15. The GO lists 26 specific organizational and structional changes. It opens with “1” The resignations of the following named officers have been accepted by the President to take effect today” and continues with a list of 15 named officers. The most important instructions began with XIX, “The Battn of Maryland Cavalry commanded by Liet. Colo. R. Brown will be designated as the 1st Maryland Cavalry. The Battn of Maryland Infantry, Liet. Colonel J.R. Herbert commdg, will be designated as the 2nd Maryland Infantry. The Battery of Artillery, commanded by Capt. W.H. Griffin, to be designated as the 2nd Maryland Artillery. Together with such companies, Battns., Squadrons, and Regt. as may hereafter be ordered, raised, assigned, or transferred to it, are orfanized into THE MARYLAND LINE under the command of Col. Bradley YT. Johnson in pursuance of GO No. 8 A&J.G.O. 1862and Act of Congress approved Feb. 15th 1862. Colonel Bradley T. Johnson is assigned to the duty of organizing and recruiting the Maryland Line.” In the year 1864 an attempt was made to assemble all the Marylanders in the armies of the Confederacy into the Maryland Line. Colonel Bradley T. Johnson was assigned to the command of all the Maryland troops and companies in the service, and directed to rendezvous them at Hanover Junction. Major-General Arnold Elzey was ordered to assemble all the unassigned men at Staunton and organize them into regiments.
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